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About Me

I'm a horror novelist and short story writer from Chicago. My latest short story collection, Needles & Sins , was just released by Necro Publications. Read a free story from the book here: "Needles & Sins" .
Since 1993, I've published nearly 100 short stories of horror dark fantasy and dark SF in magazines like Black October, Grue, Dead of Night and Wicked Karnival as well as in the anthologies like A Dark & Deadly Valley, Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook, Cold Fleshand more.

Delirium Books has published four of my books, including my 1st erotic horror short story collection Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions as well as my first novel, Covenant , which won the Bram Stoker Award for achievement in a first novel in 2005. Both Covenant and my second novel, Sacrifice (Delirium Books, 2007) will be issued in mass market paperback by Leisure Books - so next summer you'll be able to pick up Covenant at your local Borders!For now, you can find many of my small press books on Amazon.com (just search for John Everson).QUICK LINKS TO MY BOOKS: Needles & Sins
Failure (novelette)
Vigilantes of Love (short story collection)

Demoniczne Przymierze ) (Polish translation of Covenant)

Candy in the Dumpster (4-author collection featuring stories from Jay Bonansinga, Bill Breedlove, Martin Mundt and me!)

Shocklines "John Everson" Online Bookstore (carries many books and magazines I've had work in)

The Horror Mall stocks several of my books as well.
MY BOOKCOVERS:

BUY MY BOOKS AT THESE FINE STORES:
Amazon.com (scroll down the page for a list of my books)
The Horror Mall
Shocklines Bookstore: John Everson Section
Bad Moon Books
Bloodletting Books
Dark Delicacies
Ziesing Books

BOOK SIGNING AT DARK DELICACIES

Here's a video Lisa Morton took of me during my book signing at www.darkdel.com on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007 near Los Angeles. (Thanks Lisa!)

My Interests

READ FREE FICTION:

"Needles & Sins" - After death, your sins may live on, and on, and on...

"Pumpkin Head" - wherein a boy discovers that seducing a pumpkin girl can have dire consequence...

"Vigilantes of Love" - about a voodoo curse that leaves only a bloody stain in adulterous beds...

"The Tapping" - a Poe-esque tale about a graveyard bet and some unquiet bones...

HEAR FREE FICTION:

FreakForum's Halloween 2006 show included a performance of my story "Pumpkin Head" right around the 1-hour mark. You can Download the MP3 or visit the blog at www.myspace.com/freakforum .

Twilight Tales published my book Vigilantes of Love and also created a podcast of my story "The Tapping." It's a Poe-ish tale that you can download and listen to.

INTERVIEWS:

Dark Discoveries #10 features both an interview with me and a short story -- "Star on the Beach." (Summer 2007)
An interview with me talking about Sacrifice as well as my other books is posted at HorrorYearbook.com ! (November 2006)
There's an interview with me on Denise Kaminsky's Interviews and Media News site. (October 2006)

Music:

I was a music critic for more than 20 years (see www.popstops.net ) and so I like a variety of bands. My longtime favorites, however, are The Cure, New Order, Tori Amos, Tanya Donelly, Delerium, Green Day and many more. I also have written music and played with a few bands over the years. I've posted an instrumental song I wrote for Martin Mundt's stage play "The Jackie Sexknife Show" as the background music for this page.

For Info On My Books, Art & Music, Visit www.johneverson.com

My Blog

From a Massacre to a Fishermans Wharf

It's been something of a whirlwind week for me - hard to believe that a week ago I was just getting home from the Milwaukee Massacre at the Wisconsin State Fair Park grounds. That's because just a co...
Posted by John Everson on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:57:00 PST

Massacre Killed!

Got back last night from the weekend as a guest at the Milwaukee Massacre, and despite torrential downpours most of the weekend and the threat of tornadoes (I'm serious!) I just wanted to say I had a ...
Posted by John Everson on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:10:00 PST

Join the John Everson Mailing List -- and/or the Street Team!

Join the John Everson ~ Dark Arts Mailing List!Over the past couple weeks I've been setting up a new standalone Mailing List for my monthly e-newsletter that will (hopefully) be a little ea...
Posted by John Everson on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:57:00 PST

Milwaukee County Massacre

One June 7-8, 2008, I'll be a horror author guest (along with W.D. Gagliani and David Benton) at the Milwaukee County Massacre. If you're in the Milwaukee-Chicago area, come on up, say hi and ...
Posted by John Everson on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:12:00 PST

A San Diego Soliloquy

I wrote this on Tuesday night, but couldn't post until tonight... Last Friday, I flew out to San Diego on a business trip (where I still am, as I write this actually!) It's been a long roadtrip, but a...
Posted by John Everson on Fri, 09 May 2008 10:51:00 PST

Sometimes life is surreal...

So on Tuesday, I went on a business trip to St. Louis with Shoreline Productions' Pat Mongoven to videotape some surgeon presentations -- their talks will ultimately be combined with PowerPoint p...
Posted by John Everson on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:41:00 PST

Leisure Books coverage of World Horror Convention 2008

Just was poking around at my new publisher's site, Leisure Books, and saw that they've got some pix from the recent World Horror Convention with me in them that I hadn't seen before! Check them out he...
Posted by John Everson on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:19:00 PST

Needles & Sins on Dark Delicacies’ Bestseller List

Thanks to my signing there last weekend, NEEDLES & SINS came in as the Number 2 Bestselling Paperback for the week at Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank, CA! Last week, my novelette, FAILURE placed...
Posted by John Everson on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:14:00 PST

Today was Topless Day!

Yep - sun was out, temp over 70 degrees... it was inevitable that today would be my first official day in 2008 to go topless... in the Mustang, that is. I think it was actually this nice here over the...
Posted by John Everson on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:37:00 PST

Dark Delicacies Signing 2008 - or, Why I Love L.A.

Click Photos for Larger Versions Burbank, CaliforniaApril 12, 2008 had a business trip planned to Los Angeles this weekend, and so a few weeks ago I called up Del and Sue at Dark Delicacies Boo...
Posted by John Everson on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:22:00 PST